Ashraf Barhom (Arabic: أشرف برهوم, Hebrew: אשרף ברהום; born January 8, 1979) is an actor from Tarshiha, in Galilee, Israel.
Barhom grew up in an Arab Christian family[2] in Israel, in the Galilee region, in a small village called Tarshiha.
Of his ethnic heritage, Barhom has said: When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict.
[3] In 2007, he garnered much attention for appearing alongside Jamie Foxx in the movie The Kingdom as Col. Faris Al-Ghazi.
He is also notable for starring in Agora, portraying the 5th century AD Alexandrian parabalani monk Ammonius, in the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans as the bounty hunter Ozal, and in Ralph Fiennes' 2011 adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus.